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02 @gasses UNITED STATES PATENTv OFFICE.

JOHN GREIMANN, OF EAST ELKPORT, IOWA.

NAILLESS HORSESHOE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 506,688, dated October 17, 1893.

A .Application led June 23, 1893. Serial No. 478.639. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN GREIMANN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of East Elkport, in the county of Clayton and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Attaching Horseshoes, of which the following is a 1 specification.

For securing shoes to the hoofs of horses without the use of nails I have provided an improved attaching devicewhereby the shoes can be applied and fastened, and which permits of their easy removal when desired. The shoes are specially constructed for use with separable calks, and a single hoof-band adapted for attachment to the shoe by cotterkeys and to the hoof by a cotter key. In these particulars my improvement resides and will be particularly pointed out in the claims concluding this specification, in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l shows my improved shoe attaching -device as it is applied to a horses hoof. Fig.

2 shows the under side of the shoe; and Fig. 3 is a similar view as it is applied to the horses hoof. Fig.4 shows the hoof-band before the shoe is attached; and Fig. 5 is the upper side of the shoe. In Fig. 6 are front, bottom and sectional views of the hoof-band as adapted for attachment to the toe-calk; and Fig. 7 is a detail showing the tapering seat for the heel-calks. Fig. 8 shows the bent ends of the hoof-band and its buckle-plate keyed thereon. l

I construct the shoe with upset rims 1, 2, standing down on its under side all around its outer and inner edges; and within the outer :rim and joining the inner wall of the outer rim, the shoe-plate has a series of slots 3 at suitable distances apart and in the rim at the middle of these slots are holes 4, the purpose of which I will presently state. The shoe-calks are separate and adapted to it closely between the rims, the toe-calk 5, being fastened by screws 6, 6, to the shoe-plate from its upper side; and the heel-calks 7, 7, are fitted to seats 8, 8, between the rims by screws 9, also screwed into them from the upper side of the shoe. These seats may be tapering toward the ends of the shoe as seen in between the rim, form the wear-surface ofthe shoe.

The band for fastening the shoe to lthe hoof consists of a single piece of sheet lsteel 10, adapted to tit entirely around the horses hoof, upon its sloping walls with its ends bent outwardly at right angles at the front to form meeting binders 11, over which a `slotted buckle-plate 12 is bound by a @otter-key 13, which passes through slots 14 in the bent band ends 11 so as to have a wedge action upon the latter` to draw the band tight and rm around the hoof. See Fig. 8.

The hoof-band has its lower edge formed with tongues 15, corresponding with and adaptedto fit into and through the slots 3, 1n

the shoe-plate against the inner wall of the outer rim to which they are secured by means of cotter-keys 16, driven through the holes 4, from the outside and through coincident slots 17, in the band-tongues 15, and thereby securely and iirmly fasten the shoe to the tongues of the hoof-ban d. The buckled ends of the hoof-band are drawn tightly through the slot of the buckle by driving in the cotter-key and spreading its ends to lock it. As the hoof-band is quite thin this drawing action will serve to keep it tight after having been once tightly fitted upon the hoot and for which purpose the bands are made of different sizes. i

The shoe must be suliiciently larger than the bottom of the hoof to expose the slots in the shoe-plate for engagement with the bandtongues,I as seen in Fig. 1; and while I have described and shown the hoof-band having four tongues for engaging the slots in the shoe-plate, I may form tongues 19 also, at their meeting ends'and pass them through the slots 20, in the toe-plate of the shoe, and in the toe-calk, and fasten them by clinching their ends 2l, on the inner sides of the toecalks, as shown in Fig. 6. The hoof-band should be wide enough to give a broad and full seating upon the walls of the hoof, and I may have the tongues wide enough to receive two cotter-keys.

In applying the shoe by my fastening de- IOD around its inner and outer edges and termi' nating in tapering calli-seats at the heel end,

in combination with calks fastened by screwsy between said rims, the heel-calks being secured in the tapering seats, and a suitable hoof attaching device for the shoe,vsub stan tially as described.

2. In a nailless horseshoe,-tbe combination of the shoe having a rim standing downward around its outer -edge,'a series .of slots joining the inner wall of the rim and holes in the rim at said slots, witha hoot-band extending around the hoof having its ends bent out- Wardly at the front, a slotted plate engaging said-bent ends, a-cotter-key binding said bent ends `tosaid slotted plate, said band having tongues engaging the slots in the shoe, and cotter-keys fastening said tongues against the inner Wall lof said rim, substantially -as described.

3. 'A fastening device for a nailless horseshoe, consisting of a bandy adapted to be fitted around and upon the hoof, having its meetingends at the front bent outwardly and provided with co-incident slots, a slotted buckle at said slots,:wi,th a hoof-band having its front ends fastened, and having tongues engaging said slots in the shoe, the toe-calli having slots into which the tongues at the fastened ends of the hoof-band are clinched, and means for fastening the other ofsaid tongues in the slots of said shoe-plate.

5. In a nailless horse-shoe@ band adapted to tit entirely around the hoof and Ahaving tonguesatlit-s lowerffedge-,incombination with aLbuckle-plate engaging'the lmeeting endsof the band at the front, a wedge shaped kcotter-key engaging the band ends .over the buckle-plate, and means forfastening said band-tongues to the shoe, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed this spcification in :the presence -of witnesses.

`JOHN GREIMANN. Witnesses:

D. D. MURPHY, CHAs. JOHNSON. 

